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Show he returned to the homestead to care for the demands there during the spring and summer months. For the winter months that kept growing in number, he continued to leave the farm chores to the care of his young brothers as they grew old enough to assume more and more of the farm work. His second job had taken him to Carbon County for his next winter away from home. There he worked for George Frandsen, and later herded for an older cousin, Lars Peter Madsen. He was paid twenty dollars a month, and then thirty dollars, and that was the highest wage he ever received in his life. By working year upon year, drawing only enough money to assist his mother and care for his own few requirements (that included tobacco) he took the balance of his annual pay in old ewes, at ninety cents per head. The men he worked for allowed him to run his small flock with their herd, paying what was called "herd bill" on them. After nine years of following such a pattern it became harder for him to pay herd bills, even though he sold some of his increase regularly in order to do so. Then he knew that he would have to do something to ease the situation. Grover Cleveland was President of the United States at the time and sheepmen were suffering so much that some of them lost their sheep. It was then that John K was approached by F. C. Jensen of Mt. Pleasant who wanted him to take a herd of his 50 |